| mary grant seacole: the first nurse practitioner. | mary grant seacole was born in 1805, in kingston, jamaica, to a jamaican doctress (medicine woman) and a scottish naval officer. later seacole became a doctress, nursing british soldiers during epidemics of cholera, dysentery, and yellow fever in jamaica, cuba, and panama. after refusals by both the british government and florence nightingale to be allowed to practice in scutari, she financed her own way to the scene of the crimean war and then established the british hotel to serve both the com ... | 1998 | 12675077 |